monologuing and special interests

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Do you ever use solitary monologuing/talking to yourself as a way of engaging with special interests? Will you ever find yourself talking to yourself about your interests when you're all alone? I find that I can really hyperfocus this way and once I start talking to myself I lose sense of time completely like I'm in another time zone/world. I feel like this might be the main way I actually hyperfocus.

No, When I'm hyperfocusing I don't lose a sense of time, but I do usually hyperfocus to accomplish something which is usually in a strict time limit. Though, I notice when I monologue, I have improper grammer and spelling despite not having it when I don't monologue. Though I can easily fix this. Though It's almost time for breakfast.

There are times when I talk to myself about something I'm quite interested in--in order to soothe myself. The "conversations" rarely last a long time, though.

I do that a lot. I have conversations with myself about my special interest and I always lose track of time when I do.

yep, i talk to myself about video games all the time, you see my dad goes away to work for entire weeks at a time so i have no one else interested in video games to talk to, so i talk to myself about it, heres where i can go weirder though, in my head I have a conversation with myself BUT the stuff im saying is being said by a fictional character OR someone i know.

I occasionally have convos in my head about what I would tell someone else about birds/nature, but I don't do it as much now.

I write essays to myself about my various interests and organize the information into different sections, I also compartmentalize everything because often I seek to transfer it into different creative ideas I have when a spark flies so I do have an energetic rapport with myself on my interests, I don't really talk to myself about them though in a literal sense because I kinda already fathom plenty about the topic and don't need to clarify or explain anything!

I talk to myself more than I do anyone else, not just about my special interests though, but about whatever is on my mind and anything or anyone that is bothering me. I actually find it difficult to think in my head, without verbalizing my thoughts. When I hyperfocus on my special interests, I lose track of time, I even forget to drink or eat along with any other responsibilities I have.

So I understand that "talking to yourself" refers generally to speaking aloud when you're by yourself, but I've always been unclear on motive.

Does "talking to yourself" mean that you speak, then you reply back to yourself as another might? This would be a true conversation with yourself.

Or, does "talking to yourself" mean speaking out loud, but you're imagining other people around you, say as a rehearsal for what you might say in a job interview you're driving to? This would not be a conversation with yourself, but rather a rehearsal of a conversation with someone else.

I've done the latter as I find I can better articulate my thoughts when I'm alone than I can in the presence of others, but I have never had a true conversation with myself.

I'm curious what "talking to yourself" really means to other people.

I have conversations with myself about my special interests in the privacy of my own apartment, because nobody else will listen to me.

I talk to myself about my special interests when I'm alone. Like others have said here, it's a form of self soothing for me.

Also, I often rehearse and rehash conversations which I expect to have, or which I have had, to see if I can work out what to say, or improve on something I've said. It's a way to work out the social bits and pieces of conversations so I can relate to people better.

The most painful self-conversations I have are when I've previously said something which made people feel uncomfortable - I feel horrible when this happens and I kind of tell myself over and over again what I should do differently in the future. e.g. don't talk about it if you've had a dream about someone.

I talk to myself but not particularly about special interests, just generally. And it's not a conversation in the sense that I say something and then reply to myself -- I've never done that. I just talk my thoughts out loud.

Examples might be:
"Dammit I've missed the start of that TV show, I thought it was on at 2.30???"

"Okay I need mayo, bread's okay, need coffee," (making my shopping list).

"Why would she say that to me? She knows that's not what I think. Where did I go wrong in that other conversation? What can I say next time? 'Okay, Marie, that whole thing about ___ -- I hope you know that I didn't intend ___'.....agh that doesn't sound right." (Keep trying to rehearse something.)

"It's raining! They said it wasn't going to rain! Where's my other thing now, can't wear this out there now."

This is how scintillating the "conversations" are around my place.

I basically talk out loud making a running commentary to nobody, or more usefully I rehearse things I know I want to say, or "fix" in retrospect things I wish I'd managed to say but got caught off guard in a conversation because of my slow processing -- that happens a lot and is a source of frustration and a lot of post-game revisions spoken to the four walls.

I never answer myself back, I never think anyone else is listening or answering back. I just "think out loud" as it seems to clarify my thoughts to myself better than when I just think them silently.

The same is when you write them down on paper.